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10 Dec 2016 12:45:38am

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Again it would appear that scientists, a priori, are philosophers in the sense you seem to be using the term. However more than that they are people who discover results. Science has long since ceased to be about explanation, as I recall, and is about how we do things. In this way any philosophy, or series of philosophies will do the job, with the inevitability of a good fairy tale. Which is all jolly hocky sticks and Nobel Prizes but it doesnt make this article any less nonsense or the concept of a soul any more useful.